by Nanette Ashby
Lyon, France, 2nd June 1975. More than 100 sex workers occupied the Saint-Nizier Church demanding to have their voices heard. They insisted on the release of ten sex workers who had been jailed for solicitation just days prior, as well as the cessation of police harassment, fines, abuse and stigma attached to their work.
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Amsterdam’s Red Light District from a Sex Worker’s perspective with Nat Portnoy – Culturally Curious Ep.6
In this episode, Nanette Ashby takes you with her to the Prostitution Information Center in Amsterdam. It is located in the heart of the Red light district next to the Oude Kerk or Old Church. I have the pleasure of interviewing Nat Portnoy, a multidisciplinary artist, activist, performer, filmmaker and sex worker.
What HBO´s “The Deuce“ can teach us about the intersection of sex work, power, class and capitalism
by Laura Schranz Due to new court rulings that loosened obscenity rules and left them rather ambiguous and open to interpretation, New York experienced a boom in sex work, leading to the so-called “Golden Age of Porn”. Place of action was mostly the so-called Deuce, a street in Manhattan between Times Square and 8th Avenue.